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Venezuelan opposition quits negotiations with government

Xinhua, January 27, 2017 Adjust font size:

The Venezuelan opposition party, the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), announced on Thursday it was abandoning negotiations with the government, indicating these talks were now a "closed chapter."

The reason to quit the talks were given as the government having not fulfilled its commitment promised in earlier talks since October 2016.

"The experiment of dialogue which happened in Venezuela from Oct. 30 to Dec. 6, 2016 is a closed chapter that will not be re-opened," read the MUD statement.

The opposition alliance mentioned that the government failed to free around 100 "political prisoners" as promised, to open a humanitarian channel to alleviate the scarcity of essential goods and to call for an early presidential election.

Equally, the MUD accused President Nicolas Maduro of being the main person responsible for "the greatest inflation in the world", which is now well into three digits.

"No political negotiation will be successful if it's not backed by a growing and sustained mobility by the citizenship," the MUD statement said. Enditem